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Discussion article for the meetup : Fifth Buenos Aires LessWrong meetup WHEN: 09 August 2014 04:00:00PM (-0300) WHERE: Roseti 1380,

Why Psychologists’ Food Fight Matters: Important findings” haven’t been replicated, and science may have to change its ways. By Michelle N.

Vincent Müller and Nick Bostrom have just released a paper surveying the results of a poll of experts about future progress in artificial in

Nick Beckstead just published a post on disaster shelters over at the Effective Altruism Blog. Summary: What is the problem? Civilization

Link A large international group set up to test the reliability of psychology experiments has successfully reproduced the results of 10 o

A philanthropist who will remain anonymous recently asked us about what we would do if we didn’t face financial constraints. We gave a detai

The Survival of Humanity, by Lawrence Rifkin (September 13, 2013). Some excerpts: An existential catastrophe would obliterate or severely

Transhuman, a 20-minute Dutch documentary about Anders Sandberg, is now available online.  From Sandberg's blog: Here is the chance of s

A very interesting article on "earning to give", featuring  LessWrong members Jeff Kaufman, Julia Wise, Holden Karnofsky, William MacAskill 

Jonathan Birch recently published an interesting critique of Bostrom's simulation argument.  Here's the abstract: Nick Bostrom’s ‘Simulat